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| Paul Caudill | profile | all galleries >> Summer 2003 >> Pensacola Visit >> USS Alabama Battleship Memorial | tree view | thumbnails | slideshow |
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 If I were a sailor back then, I definitely would have a few broken bones from going up and down these things. |
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 The machine tool and lathe shop. |
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 Bunks |
 The brig! |
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 On-board barbershop |
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 Fast carrier attack group formation |
 Knots, for Dad |
 One of the messes |
 Kamikaze pilot prayer stuff |
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 Fragments of a kamikaze from attack on the USS Evans |
 The butcher |
 At the base of one of the main turret barbettes |
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 Engine room |
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 Shells, shells, shells |
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 CIC |
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 Shells for the main guns - these things are HUGE. Taller than Mom, as you can see. I hear they weight as much as a Volkswagen. |
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 Power charges for the shells |
 Sickbay |
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 The ship's silver |
 A-12 Blackbird |
 At first I thought it was the famous SR-71 Blackbird, but apparently there are several types of Blackbirds. |
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 It takes a two and a half of these trucks (actual trucks, of course) to fully fuel a Blackbird...(click for more) |
 Blackbird juices - fuel and oil. "These are not a jelly or peanut butter consistency as most are led to believe." |
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 The Alabama was undergoin a $4,000,000 hull restoration at the time... |
 On deck |
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 The rusting aft of the USS Drum |
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 A little cramped |
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 Somehow I doubt this fellow would have made a good submariner...*cough* |
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 Crawling into and out of the conn was a bit of a chore |
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 An actual view from the periscope of the USS Drum |
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